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|Title:||Trade liberalization, employment flows and wage inequality in Brazil |
|Authors:||Ferreira, Francisco H. G.|
Leite, Phillippe G.
|Issue Date:||2007 |
|Series/Report no.:||Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2007/58|
|Abstract:||Using nationally representative, economy-wide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premiums; industry and economy-wide skill premiums; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade liberalization appears to have made a significant contribution towards a reduction in wage inequality. These effects have not occurred through changes in industry-specific (wage or skill) premiums. Instead, they appear to have been channelled through substantial employment flows across sectors and formality categories. Changes in the economy-wide skill premium are also important.|
|Document Type:||Working Paper|
|Appears in Collections:||WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)|
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